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Barbet Schroeder's "Barfly"

Egg Shen — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:27:25 -0800

Roger Ebert on the set of Barfly. Cannon Films' Menahem Golan said that Barbet Schroeder threatened to cut off his own finger if he did not receive financing for the film. In Charles Bukowski's novel about the making of the movie, Hollywood, which is dedicated to Schroeder, he has Schroeder saying: It is 80% true but: 1) It was never my intention to cut more than the end of the left little finger. I just did not have the time to go to a lawyer, that is why I had to choose the firm Black & Decker. 2) My plan was to do eventually do a press conference holding the finger and then go to the hospital to try to have it sewn up again.

Mr. Huntsman -- Tear. Down. That. Wall.

mudpuppie — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:43:30 -0800

The 'Zion Curtain' has fallen. While existing Utah restaurants may remove partitions separating patrons and booze, known as the "Zion Curtain," new restaurants will be required to store liquor and mix drinks out of public view. In other Utah-/alcohol-related news, a restaurant membership is no longer required in order to purchase a drink. Oh, and hit-and-run accidents resulting in injuries are now felonies, but only if the driver has a previous DUI conviction.

Good evening, ossifer!

I Love Tacos — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:58:41 -0800

Don't Drink ~~and Drive.~~

shoshenmerningersdavis, jackassnm

Tlogmer — Mon, 06 Sep 2004 22:15:44 -0800

A returned U.K. expat on English drinking's sharp increase.
(supporting study with female subjects) (the gov's counterintuitive but well-researched solution)
Brits: any accuracy to the concerns?

World's Best Bars

MiguelCardoso — Sun, 26 Oct 2003 19:25:32 -0800

Of All The Gin Joints In All The Towns In All The World, (You) Walk Into Mine: In Lisbon, it would have to be Lux for fun or The Ritz for serious drinking. But in all the towns in all the world, only Harry's Bar in Venice, despite the carping, would do. Listen to Hemingway! (More inside.)

Modern Drunkard's Bar Signs

jonson — Mon, 16 Dec 2002 13:18:12 -0800

Bar Signs. Modern Drunkard has posted a handy guide for the alcoholic in us all, a set of gestures to communicate your needs when it's too loud to hear, or just because, as the site says, "when words come out, whiskey can't get in."